6 volumes : 29 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

v. 1. Antiquity-18th century, topics & authors: Women and women's writings from Antiquity through the Middle Ages -- Women in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries: an overview -- Women's literature in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries -- Christine de Pizan 1365-c.1431 -- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1651-1695 -- Margery Kempe 1373-1440 -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1689-1762 -- Sappho fl. 6th century B.C. -- Phillis Wheatley 1753-1784 -- Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797

v. 2. 19th century, topics & authors (A-B): Women in the 19th century: an overview -- Women's literature in the 19th century -- United States suffrage movement in the 19th century -- Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888 -- Jane Austen 1775-1817 -- Charlotte Brontë 1816-1855 -- Emily Brontë 1818-1848 -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861 -- Fanny Burney 1752- 1840

v. 3. 19th century, topics & authors (C-Z): Kate Chopin 1851-1904 -- Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 -- Maria Edgeworth 1768-1849 -- George Eliot 1819-1880 -- Margaret Fuller 1810-1850 -- Marietta Holley 1836-1926 -- Harriet Jacobs 1813-1897 -- Sarah Orne Jewett 1849-1909 -- Christina Rossetti 1830-1894 -- George Sand 1804-1876 -- Catharine Maria Sedgwick 1789-1867 -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1797-1851 -- Germaine de Staël 1766-1817 -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902 -- Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1895

v. 4. 20th century, topics: Women in the early to mid-20th century (1900-1960) -- Suffrage in the 20th century -- Women's literature from 1900 to 1960 -- The feminist movement in the 20th century -- Women's literature from 1960 to present

v. 5. 20th century, authors (A-G): Anna Akhmatova 1889-1966 -- Isabel Allende 1942- -- Maya Angelou 1928- -- Margaret Atwood 1939- -- Simone de Beauvoir 1908-1986 -- Gwendolyn Brooks 1917-2000 -- Willa Cather 1873-1947 -- Sandra Cisneros 1954- -- Hélène Cixous 1937- -- H.D. 1886-1961 -- Marguerite Duras 1914-1996 -- Andrea Dworkin 1946- -- Buchi Emecheta 1944- -- Louise Erdrich 1954- -- Marilyn French 1929- -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860-1935

v. 6. 20th century, authors (H-Z): Lorraine Hansberry 1930-1965 -- Bessie Head 1937-1986 -- Lillian Hellman c. 1905-1984 -- Zora Neale Hurston 1891-1960 -- Maxine Hong Kingston 1940- -- Doris Lessing 1919- -- Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892-1950 -- Marianne Moore 1887-1972 -- Toni Morrison 1931- -- Joyce Carol Oates 1938- -- Sylvia Plath 1932-1963 -- Adrienne Rich 1929- -- Anne Sexton 1928-1974 -- Gertrude Stein 1874-1946 -- Amy Tan 1952- -- Alice Walker 1944- --Edith Wharton 1862-1937 -- Virginia Woolf 1882-1941

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